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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870
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XIV In conclusion, I would again call the attention of your Excellency to the resolution of the Board of Trustees (page 80), recommending a reduction of the number of the Board, which, already composed of 32 members, will be increased, at least by the addition of one for each congressional district, making the number 35 or more. The Board ask that the number be reduced to one member from each congressional district, with the present exofficio members, which would make the total number about 20. For many institutions even this number might seem unnecessarily large; but experience has shown that in an educational experiment like the Industrial University, we require as wide a range of experience and observation in its legislative department as is practicable. To rightly ascertain the educational wants, tastes and capacities of the great industrial classes, and meet them, requires not only ability and faithfulness, but that kind of wisdom which is found in a multitude of counselors, coming from the ranks of the people in all parts of the State. Eespectfully, W. 0. FLAGG, Cor. Sec. of Board of Trustees.
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